“We begin to say something that cannot be said. When you see on the front page a woman in Iraq who's just seen her husband blown up, you see her there, her mouth wide open, you know the sound coming… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“…Preserve my eyes, which are irreplaceable. Preserve my heart, veins, bones, Against the slow death building in them like hornets until the place is… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“all these years I have looked through your limbs to the river below and the roofs and the night and you were the way… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I have no way of telling what I miss I am the only one who misses it” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way of language… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“October" I remember how I would say, “I will gather These pieces together, Any minute now I will make A knife out of a… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“...The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“In my youth I believed in somewhere else I put my faith in travel now I am becoming my own tree” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away” — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“I turned to the room and in the light from the street beheld one beautiful bare breast of a friend's friend gently rising and… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“…Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
![“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.” quote by W.S. Merwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d26/w-s-merwin-2-23725_art_the-thing-that-makes-poetry-different-fr_508289.jpg)
